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Class of 44-3
"Oh, I had a letter from Ruth today"

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Mukluks warn by Ruby during her employment with the US Geological Survey

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- Name Unknown -
Unable to identify using Virginia Thomas' information, "Out of the Blue and Into History" by Betty Stagg Turner, or the Texas Women's University website on WASPs.
Only information that was left by Virginia Thomas is, "Roll 100,…

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Class of 44-2
"Let's all write a letter"
Deceased 1949

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Memory written to Ruby at her memorial service. There are more of these within the collection.

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Aviatrix Tracy Pilurs seated in the cockpit of her bi-plane accompanied by her stuffed animal cat mascot.

TRACY-PILURS-MS-008.pdf
The Tracy Pilurs Collection was accessioned into IWASM in November and December 1999. The material was donated by Tracy and delivered by three of her children, Tom and Jim Pilurs and Alexis Boilini-Levy. The papers in the collection date from 1942…

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Three women, dressed in the style of the 1940s and 50s, stand all with their hands clapsed in front of a small plane. A man is barely visible in the cockpit window. The left-most woman is most-likely Ruth Nichols.

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Thelma Miller, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), standing with a plane at Avenger Field in Stillwater, Texas.

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German aviatrix Thea Rasche sits in the cockpit of a plane holding an award.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads:

Thea Rasche
1899-1971
License #6700
Germany

MERCURY-13-MS-012.pdf
The Mercury 13 Collection is based on several ladies collections and relates to their participation in the Mercury testing program.

The material fills 6 Hollinger boxes and 5 folders.

There are no restrictions on the use of these materials.…

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The crew of The American Nurse airplane, Dr. Leon Martocci-Pisculli (commander), Edna Newcomer (copilot), and William Ulbrich (pilot). They made an attempt in the aircraft The American Nurse to fly from New York to Rome in September 1932. After the…

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Seventeen female pilots gather for a photograph in front of a plane at the 1933 Annette Gibson Air Race.

Photo by S. O. Bancroft.

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Teresa James and Betty Gillies, members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), at the P47 modification center in Evansville, Indiana.

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